Opinion

Thompson v. State

  • 85 Nev. 134
  • 451 P.2d 704
  • 1969 Nev. LEXIS 503
Court
Nevada Supreme Court
Filed
Mar 11, 1969
Status
Published
Author
Collins
On the bench
Batjer, Collins, Mowbray, Thompson, Zenoff
Cited by
50 cases
Authority
More cited than 7.0%

Distinguished

  • Distinguished by Bishop v. State, 92 Nev. 510 (1976)

    Thompson v. State, 85 Nev. 134, 451 P.2d 704 (1969), upon which appellant relies is inapposite because Thompson was in police custody when he was identified at the police station from a group of pictures.
    Nevada Supreme CourtAug 31, 1976Read it

The opinion

Collins, C. J.,

concurring in part, dissenting in part:

I concur in the result announced by the court’s opinion and certain of the reasoning leading to that result.

I dissent, however, from extension of the doctrine of United States v. Wade, 388 U.S. 218 (1967) to a pretrial examination of'photos or mug-shots ,of a suspect then in custody. If the rule *141 in Wade is to be thus extended, it should be done by the United States Supreme Court, but not this court.

The majority opinion seems anxious to once more outleap the United States Supreme Court. I feel no legal compulsion to join in that leap.

The record in this case leaves no doubt the true identification of appellant by both the victim and the two women was from their observations at the scene of the crime, independent of pretrial identification. The majority opinion agrees. We should stop there and at least wait until a pretrial identification from mug shots presents a serious question of prejudice before we undertake pronouncement of another constitutional rule in the evidence field.

Mowbray, J., concurs with the views expressed above by Chief Justice Collins.

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